Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing · South Carolina

Meiden America Switchgear

Gray Court, Sc, SC · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meiden America Switchgear runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Meiden America Switchgear: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meiden America Switchgear safety composite

Meiden America Switchgear scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Meiden America Switchgear: 3.4 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Meiden America Switchgear's TCR rose 6.6 from 3.4 in 2021 to 10.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335313 · Gray Court, Sc, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO The New IEM Power Sy…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The New IEM Power Systems, LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Meiden America Switchgear in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Meiden America Switchgear averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Meiden America Switchgear TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Meiden America Switchgear falls in its industry

226 Circuit breakers, power, manuf establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Circuit breakers, power, manuf employers in South Carolina.

Meiden America Switchgear (42 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Meiden America Switchgear
Meiden America Switchgear (42 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Meiden America Switchgear has fewer employees than the Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 10.0 8.3 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2021 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335313 · SC · Gray Court, Sc

226 Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR The New IEM Power Systems, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR L3 Technologies Power Distribution Philadelphia 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HANOVER SAT MD 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Production Company, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newberry Electric Cooperative,Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Resource Center PNG 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group South Carolina, LLC- Charleston Division 42 FTE
NAT-TCR WeldFab Manufacturing 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ulbrich of Illinois 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nazareth Living Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wjc-Twc-Twc Wjc -Jacksonville Fl 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WB Services LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamondback Manufacturing 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Meade 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Family Care Network, PLLC - Urgent Care Bellingham 42 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.